Babcock amp Wilcox that make nuclear reactors, here's an integral fast reactor.

I didn't get into the Slug Club

They enbomb with horrories, whoosh with furnaces.

What are your thoughts on the traveling wave reactor?

To go any further you would have to have breeder technology.

I have some good friends in nuclear industry. They are very big advocates of the fast breeder reactor.

This is really good! This was the genesis of the idea of the fast breeder reactor, a reactor that was based around having fast neutrons and plutonium fuel.

This is a variant on something that has been done.

Same thing goes for things like plutonium. Plutonium is...

The program ended up in getting canceled by Carter in 1979 and was briefly resurrected by Reagan in 1981 and then cancelled again.

Fumes and furnaces!

We've got a perfect fire.

Outpost incinerator.

Reactor core temperature.

To the reactor?

One, it doesn't operate at high pressure.

To the incinerator.

And these reactors run at 600 to 700 degrees Celsius, which means the higher the temperature you go to, thermodynamics tells you that you will have higher efficiencies.

At that rate, the known reserves of uranium would last for only 10 to 20 years.

It's an important advance, but it's like a fast reactor, and a lot of countries have built them, so anybody who's done a fast reactor is a candidate to be where the first one gets built.

I had the good fortune to learn about a different form of nuclear power.

Reactor bay.

This set of short steel jaws was bored to one inch deep while being held at 100 psi

Next we have these short aluminum jaws, cut with a 1.5 inch deep bore, also at 100 psi

Like I was saying, the Atomic Energy Commission said Hey, guess what, we're putting all this money in the fast breeder.

LFTR is a molten salt reactor. All LFTRs are molten salt reactors but not all molten salt reactors are LFTRs.

Swish, rustle. He was working in a room with an open fireplace, he said.

Then what happens to the waste?

The one nearest the fire.

Would you like to sit and stare at the fake fire?

Put in a real fire pit.

The reactor is close.

So traditional reactors like a pressurized water reactor or boiling water reactor, they're very, very hot water at very high pressures, and this means, essentially, in the event of an accident, if you had any kind of breach of this stainless steel pressure vessel, the coolant would leave the core.

Right here by the fireplace.

I haven't seen an incinerator for years.

and looked after her here in the warm.

You have to heat them up to about 400 degrees Celsius to get them to melt, but that's actually perfect for trying to generate power in a nuclear reactor.

NURSE Mistress! what, mistress! Juliet! fast, I warrant her, she

A clamshell is hard.

So that's my fusion reactor in the background there.

And this is what it is.

Uh, put it right over the fireplace there.

70millimeter tube furnace. Excellent.

Reactor, that's right.

And it ran for about 11 days in 1954.